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square sail

a four-sided sail rigged on a yard suspended horizontally across the mast and athwart the keel

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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